Daniela Pascual Esparza.
I’m a performance artist with a background in social sciences and urban governance. I create passages between these fields to question inherited narratives and imagine other ways of being in the world. This can manifest as workshops, performances, or consultancy work.
My research is site-oriented, and my practice deals with space, autonomy, and modes of inhabiting, subtly bringing awareness to what is seemingly unrelated. I’m exploring performances as ephemeral viewpoints, enabling several ways of relating to our bodies and surroundings within specific contexts. More specifically, I’m engaging with the following questions:
What does it mean to see?
What does it mean to be autonomous?
How to work for space?
My intention is not to find an answer to these questions. Instead, they help me tangibly frame my artistic processes, which I conceive as pedagogical experiences. They are my scaffolding against apathy, the occasion to share my shortcomings with others, to learn with others. Because a performance is not an opinion but an act of creation, it is through these gestures that I intend to re-enchant my presence in the world.
I live in Finland since 2017, where I’ve graduated from the MA in Live Art and Performance Studies programme at the University of the Arts Helsinki.
E-mail: mariadaniela.pascual@gmail.com; CV available here.
